Being unemployed has its pluses and minuses. At least I
live in the City now; if I do nothing else during the day I
have plenty of time to wander around marveling at all the
interesting stuff within three blocks of my apartment.

And that's nearly all I've been doing in the past two
weeks; a couple of interviews and other things, none of
which have yet born fruit, but I'm hopeful. I'm enjoying
the time off, anyway. I did order a new toy the other day;
I'm getting one of the new iBooks. It's the first Mac
laptop since the Duos that's small enough to satisfy my
need for a tiny notebook. BTW, if anyone wants a Sony VAIO
SR17 for a reasonable price, let me know.

I did manage to fix my ancient Powerbook, finally; after
$75 for a new SCSI cable and a new logic board, it turned
out that I had just blown out the memory expansion card.
When I took that out, it booted just fine. In fact, the
screen problems which I had observed previously were gone;
other than the fact that it only has 4MB RAM and a broken
floppy drive, the thing is now as good as new. So I now
can grab all those files which I don't really need, but
which will help satisfy my pack-rat nature.